Let's start with some caveats. Principally: How strong the live stream will be from both Coachella weekends (available on the official site) depends on your equipment as much as the technical competence of festival organizers. Their crews already battle the elements to bring the action home. Don't battle back by having a lousy Internet connection and a shoddy laptop.

Also keep in mind that not everything will air, perhaps including some of these choices. Several top-tier names are apt to deny access.

And don't expect much – or anything – out of the Sahara dance tent. Apparently little was shown from there last year, so we aren't recommending many EDM stars.

Roughly 20 turns get broadcast each day. No telling which ones they will be, but if I were stuck home resting my feet, sipping tea with the A/C cranked, here's who I'd hope to see.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Their fourth album, Mosquito, arrives between the fests, so expect a sizable handful of new bits. But there's also wildly colorful fashion to accompany the NYC trio's updated sound, and vocalist Karen O is among the most compulsively watchable figures of the past 10 years. Their hits should wow.

Blur: Only ardent Anglophiles and Brits waking up in the U.K. will care about the Stone Roses. But Blur's equally rare appearance should make for compelling viewing. The proper lineup, fronted by Damon Albarn (better known here via Gorillaz) hasn't played California since 1999; guitarist Graham Coxon had left when a mellower version played Indio in 2003. Never heard more than the woo-hoo of “Song 2”? This set should convince you of what fans have known for years: They always were better than Oasis.

Grinderman: Nick Cave's generous four appearances across both weekends are musts, but his Bad Seeds sets each Sunday may prove challenging to the uninitiated, depending on how much they pull from their tame new disc, Push the Sky Away. This snarling, darkly sexual side project with most of that band is how the Bad Seeds used to be: raw, unfiltered, riveting.

How to Destroy Angels: A question mark we'll know more about after Wednesday's preview in Pomona. Supposedly they come with full-scale spectacle, but will Trent Reznor permit the filming of his new outfit, including wife Mariqueen Maandig and frequent co-composer Atticus Ross? If so, will their atmospherics, demanding on record, have any impact online?

The Shouting Matches: Justin Vernon fuzzing and stomping it up, Black Keys-style, the exact opposite of the falsetto mood-rock he creates as Bon Iver. The best-kept secret of Coachella 2013.

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 12: Bernard Sumner of New Order performs at BT London Live celebration Concert at Hyde Park on August 12, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Danny Martindale/Getty Images) Stringer
AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 13: Singer Ruben Albarran of Cafe Tacuba performs at the NPR 2013 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival held at Stubbs Ampitheatre on March 13, 2013 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images for SXSW) Staff
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 18: Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend performs live on stage at Big Day Out 2013 at Sydney Showground on January 18, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images) Stringer
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 21: Nick Cave of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds performs at The Fonda Theatre on February 21, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Noel Vasquez/Getty Images) Stringer
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 18: Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs performs live on stage at Big Day Out 2013 at Sydney Showground on January 18, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images) Stringer
PERTH, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 18: Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 performs at the Perth stop of the Good Vibrations Festival 2007 at the Belvoir Amphitheatre February 18, 2007 in Perth, Australia. Good Vibrations is an annual music festival staged at various Australia cities with natural surroundings as the backdrop for proceedings. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Chali 2na Stringer

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